Mammals of the South-West Pacific and Moluccan Islands

by Tim Flannery

These islands are home to a lot of endemic bat species that have evolved there over thousands of years. The Australian naturalist who produced this book has spent his life looking at these mammals, especially the bats. I’ve been over to the Solomon Islands to look at the problems that endemic species encounter, and found many species are seriously threatened with extinction. Sudden changes to the environment can easily cause extinction and man keeps changing the environment.